Digital News Report – The City of Santa Cruz passed a resolution in support of proposition 25 on the November 2nd ballot.
The proposition would allow the state to pass a budget by a simple majority rather than the current two-thirds threshold. The 2/3 majority for passing taxes would continue to hold.
“The State of California’s budget process is notorious for its perpetual state of impasse”, the city said in a statement. “The two-thirds supermajority threshold is practically unattainable and empowers a minority of legislators to stall passage of the State’s most important legislation each year.”
Of the last 30 years the state legislature failed to pass a budget on-time 25 times.
The city says the that most states require a passage.
by: Mark Williams